An overview of the distributed integrated cognition affect and reflection diarc architecture

M Scheutz, T Williams, E Krause, B Oosterveld… - Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
DIARC has been under development for over 15 years. Different from other cognitive
architectures like SOAR or ACT-R, DIARC is an intrinsically component-based distributed …

Exploring the role of gender in perceptions of robotic noncompliance

RB Jackson, T Williams, N Smith - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
A key capability of morally competent robots is to reject or question potentially immoral
human commands. However, robot rejections of inappropriate commands must be phrased …

Confrontation and Cultivation: Understanding Perspectives on Robot Responses to Norm Violations

T Mott, T Williams - 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social robots will inevitably confront social or moral norm violations. While researchers have
identified preliminary strategies for when and how robots should respond in such situations …

Language-capable robots may inadvertently weaken human moral norms

RB Jackson, T Williams - 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Previous research in moral psychology and human-robot interaction has shown that
technology shapes human morality, and research in human-robot interaction has shown that …

Why and how robots should say 'no'

G Briggs, T Williams, RB Jackson… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Language-enabled robots with moral reasoning capabilities will inevitably face
situations in which they have to respond to human commands that might violate normative …

What a Thing to Say! Which Linguistic Politeness Strategies Should Robots Use in Noncompliance Interactions?

T Mott, A Fanganello, T Williams - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
For social robots to succeed in human environments, they must respond in effective yet
appropriate ways when humans violate social and moral norms, eg, when humans give …

Tact in noncompliance: The need for pragmatically apt responses to unethical commands

RB Jackson, R Wen, T Williams - Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
There is a significant body of research seeking to enable moral decision making and ensure
moral conduct in robots. One aspect of moral conduct is rejecting immoral human …

The Schulze method of voting

M Schulze - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02973, 2018 - arxiv.org
We propose a new single-winner election method (" Schulze method") and prove that it
satisfies many academic criteria (eg monotonicity, reversal symmetry, resolvability …

Enabling morally sensitive robotic clarification requests

RB Jackson, T Williams - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The design of current natural language-oriented robot architectures enables certain
architectural components to circumvent moral reasoning capabilities. One example of this is …

Explaining in time: Meeting interactive standards of explanation for robotic systems

T Arnold, D Kasenberg, M Scheutz - ACM Transactions on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Explainability has emerged as a critical AI research objective, but the breadth of proposed
methods and application domains suggest that criteria for explanation vary greatly. In …